Example sentences of "to a long [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I came back into his office and gave him his coffee , and was just getting down to a long bout of conveyancing when the phone in our room rang . |
| 2 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 3 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 4 | ‘ And if Carole Swan were here , ’ said Mrs Cartwright , adding a petits four to a long meal of wrong-doing , ‘ she would be able to tell you about what he did to her daughter Grace . |
| 5 | But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm angry because — because you think you can add me to a long line of women notched on your belt . |
| 7 | Lydia was resigning herself to a long stretch of celibacy . |
| 8 | Steps to the left lead up to a long stretch of path which continues parallel to the road . |
| 9 | Viciously beaten and sexually abused , he sustained series injury leading to a long round of hospitals , major brain surgery and permanent disability . |
| 10 | Part of him would have been sorry to hear that she had been shot , or sentenced to a long term of imprisonment in the filth of an Austrian gaol . |
| 11 | They took her out , across the wide Neva river to the north-east of the city , to a long street of factories and high concrete walls where tourists and visitors had little reason to go . |
| 12 | From the spot in the hedgerow where the four German soldiers had come from a white flag tied to a long piece of wood had suddenly appeared . |
| 13 | Better performance for one hemifield could be due either to a longer duration of icon , thus allowing more information to be encoded before the icon fades , or to a faster encoding rate , allowing more information to be encoded before the arrival of the masking stimulus . |